Phaedra Quotes

“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour
gone is followed by a worse one.”
― Seneca Lucius Annaeus

“If you want to keep a secret, never share it.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“Time flies on fickle wings”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“They should remember it everyday, when they look into their smiling faces, and be thankful that their bones are not scattered in a Cretan dungeon."
"Oh, of course they should", I hastened to agree. "But you know what people are like..."
His brows few together, confused. "What do you mean?"
"Well, they forget what could have been and focus only on the irritations of today.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when stepped close?”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“...everyone had secrets, even if it's just a secret fear of caterpillars or a tiny white lie they told to a neighbour.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“The fiction that love is a god was created by base lust,
yielding to degradation. To give more license to sin,
the false name of god was given to burning desire.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“What can reason do? Passion, passion rules.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“enjoy your youth; its time is fleeting, soon gone.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“There is no other life so free, so clean of sin,
so respectful of the ways of old,
as that which leaves the city walls, to be happy in the woods.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies